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First, I own a Panasonic commercial plasma and love it.
Here's my question though. If plasmas have deeper black levels than LDCs, why is it that when I look at all the displays side by side at, for example Walmart, the black levels on the Plasmas look poor?
Is it because of the bright lighting level of the store, and all the sets are turned way up to torch mode? Are the plasmas adjusted wrong intentionally (or unintentionally)? Both?
This has been bugging me for some time. Thanks in advance.
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At Fry's Electronics where the displays are in a darker area all the plasmas look better than the LCDs to me.
I still prefer LCDs. Cleaner picture, brighter...more fun to watch.
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You are looking at displays in an environment that is very unlike your home. Manufacturers set up their displays in "Torch" mode to compete with store lighting and other displays. There is no effort to calibrate the displays when they are shipped, nor are they calibrated at the store. It's basically box, ship, unbox and display. As a general rule, LCD does better in a medium to high lighting environment and plasma does better in a low to medium lighting environment. LCDs are getting very close to plasma black levels, especially the LED LCD models, and a few of the upper end LCDs are just about equal. Just remember that there's more to picture quality than black level. You need to consider things like color accuracy, response time (video lag), off-axis viewing angle, etc.
I also have a broadcast model Panasonic (TH-50PHD6UY). It would be nice to move it to the bedroom in place of the 42" Sylvania plasma. I was hoping to replace the 50" plasma in the living room this year with a 72" LED LCD (for the screen size). The LCD option was nixed because the douchebags at Vizio, the company that promises a rose garden but delivers ragweed, decided in late August that the 72" they teased everyone with at CES 2010 last January and throughout the year would not be manufactured.
Thanks, Joe, both for answering my question and saying it wasn't stupid!
...alas, it's just hard to analyze displays in stores, especially big box stores. They're all set in torch mode, fed with crappy signals, lighting is often glaring and so on.
The blacks are getting better on LCDs, but also beware that the contrast is often hyped up on display models.
You can't tell what you're looking at until you get into the menus and look at the settings - you really can't. Look for the remotes!!
Also, while the blacks are better on LCDs, the grey scale is nothing to write home about...despite some improvement that's still better on most plasmas. I care about shadow detail as much as anything since I watch films like LOTR, Master & Commander, Dark City et al.
Panasonic also makes LCD sets. Maybe the one you saw in the store was a LCD?
The original poster mentioned Walmart, but the one Panasonic display they sell, an LCD, is Not Sold in Stores .
The Panasonic I saw at Walmart was definitely a plasma set. I don't remember the model #, but will check it next time I'm in the store and post it. It's a 50" and very cheap, in part because it's only 720P.I just looked online, and it's probably the TC-P50C2
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